Jason Howell
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJason Howell is a product and technology executive and founder based in Bellevue who builds SaaS and IoT ventures while leading enterprise transformation as a CxO and Director of Product SaaS Delivery. He has driven large strategic ERP and finance programs at Microsoft, Hewlett‑Packard and Itron—running the SAP Finance PMO, converting finance from Waterfall to Agile, and delivering a one‑click planning solution that reduced a corporate planning cycle to under an hour. He pairs executive-level people leadership (hiring processes for 630 people, up to 187 direct reports) with deep technical breadth across cloud, IoT and mesh networks, BI, AR (HoloLens/Unity), security (red-team) and end-to-end systems integration. As founder of Cloud2Cup and H2Observe and an active contributor to Azure documentation (PowerShell and CLI samples), he combines startup grit with enterprise delivery to simplify complex systems for global business impact.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (19)
postgresql10
powershell-710
cloud-computing10
mysql10
microsoft-azure10
azure-cli10
azure-powershell10
hdp10
powershell10
azure10
bash9
infrastructureascode8
aac8
infrastructure-as-code8
ssis6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/azure-cli-samples
Apr 2017 - Jan 2018
Contains Azure CLI scripts samples used for documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer
Cloud EngineerContributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to creating and modifying Azure CLI scripts within the context of PostgreSQL and MySQL database servers. They added samples for server and firewall creation, scaling, and deletion. The user's changes include modifications to existing scripts, the addition of logging and server configuration, and merging updates from another branch, including further work on virtual machine and Azure Function configurations.
scripts-climicrosoftmicrosoft-docsazureazure-cli
Azure/azure-docs-powershell-samples
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Azure Powershell code samples, often used in docs.microsoft.com/Azure developer documentation
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 14 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to PowerShell code samples for Azure HDInsight. Their work involved updating existing scripts to use `Connect-AzAccount` instead of deprecated `Add-AzAccount` and `Get-AzSubscription`. They also fixed a typo in a comment and updated snippets to align with official documentation. The commits focus on maintaining and updating PowerShell scripts for Azure services.
powershelldeveloper-documentationmicrosoftmicrosoft-docsazure
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